The average dating period before engagement

also believes that while each couple's situation is different, it's most important to learn how to communicate when you have a conflict, rather than focus on the time frame."Many couples wait until they are ready to have children, or ready to buy a home before they marry," Nelson says.

We included the location factor to see how these relationships varied across regions as well.

Divorces are easier to obtain now than they ever were, but there can still be a price to be paid for getting things wrong.

There will always be people who have heard of a couple who married after a few months and it worked out perfectly while another couple dated for years before getting engaged or married and they did not last.

The average age of marriage across the United States for the same time period was 23.6 for women and 25.8 for men*, so the men and women in this sample were 3 to 3.5 years older on average at the time of marriage.

I suppose the relatively high average age of marriage in the sample would explain a curious personal experience that I once had that has never been repeated at other weddings I’ve attended.We surveyed a random sample of 2,072 females in the United States aged 18 to 45 over a course of three weeks to see how long they dated their partners before they got engaged.We asked three simple questions: Each of these questions were designed with the goal in mind: to find out how time and age affect relationships.The expression "act in haste repent at leisure" is not always accurate.Whether you date for a few months, a few years or a few decades it is hard to know what is best."There is no 'normal.' Partners may have an implicit expectation of the length of an engagement, based on their family, their culture and their community.